HALO XVI is the project of italian musician Gianpaolo Diacci,
who’s been playing bass, among other instruments in several bands over the years.
For the album “The Sixteenth Hour” he is accompanied with Giorgio Ricci and
Massimo Berizzi. Together, they have created an ambient album that’s full of misty
atmospheric soundscapes, fused together with guitars and something that’s not often
heard in context of electronic music, the trumpet. A word from the artist himself:

“The Sixteenth Hour is indeed a weird title for a record, given that there are little
or no connections with the band’s name. It has it’s roots in not so distant time,
when the sixteenth hour was the hour in which a lot of things, real and fantastic,
were accomplished. It was the magic time of the day, a new beginning, the end
of the daily routine and the start of lucid dreaming. The atmosphere and the
soundscapes we tried to summone on the EP come directly from that time.
We tried to obtain all this by the means of an array of modern electronics, electric
vibrations from some bass and guitar, and, most of all, the breathe of a trumpet.”
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